February 20, 2008
Metro Atlanta's Great Golf Course Communities!
Author?s note: This was first published several years ago.
Golf is one of the most popular outdoor sports in the world. In the United States, there are more than 18 million golfers who spend some $600 million each year on equipment for this much-loved sport.
Atlanta boasts more than 100 golf courses. Several Atlanta communities were [...]
January 27, 2008
Tiger Woods and PC–Inferno 9.
Brothers, here is Volume 9 of Chapin's Inferno—a wandering cauldron of conservative commentary—and it concerns Tiger Woods and PC.
Comments (3) Filed under: NEWSwax, Sports, Vox Populi, contributors — Bernard Chapin @ 12:18 pmJanuary 19, 2008
Instead of silly global-warming gestures, cancel the Super Bowl
By Craig J. Cantoni
This season's Super Bowl will be played about 10 miles from my home in Scottsdale, Ariz. In one of the silliest gestures produced by the unwarranted mass hysteria over global warming, the host stadium is planting trees to counteract carbon dioxide produced by the game.
If global warming is truly man-caused, and if [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Sports, environment — Alan Korwin @ 11:31 amDecember 16, 2007
Feds Attempt to Prevent and Reduce Anabolic Steroid Abuse Among Teens
(This article is based on a government study obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.)
The abuse of anabolic steroids by teenagers — that is, their use without a prescription — is a national health concern.
Anabolic steroids are synthetic forms of the hormone testosterone that can be taken orally, injected, or rubbed on [...]
October 14, 2007
Just the Facts: Kelli Mix Interview.
No, the poker boom has not ended. Each year, publishers and writers attempt to take advantage of a sizable minority of readers interested in poker and gambling. Occasionally, among the strategy tomes and memoirs, is a book which tells you the basics. Kelli Mix’s recently released, The Game Day Poker Almanac Official Rules of Poker, [...]
Comments (7) Filed under: Culture, Sports, Vox Populi, contributors — Bernard Chapin @ 5:15 amAugust 24, 2007
Jamie Foxx Defends Michael Vick
Michael Vick's torture and killing of dogs is so reprehensible and beyond the pale, that everyone from pundits and politicians to animal rights activists and regular folks have condemned him in no uncertain terms.
The almost universal disgust at Vick's sadism and inhumanity speaks well of our society. We are not so jaded that we [...]
August 12, 2007
Of Bobby Bonds And Barry Bonds And Lost Innocence
When I was a 11-year old kid I got a transistor radio for my birthday. I was rarely without my radio; humming along to "My Green Tambourine" and listening to the San Francisco Giants.
In those halcyon days summers stretched forever and my beloved Giants could do no wrong. They didn't enjoy much success on the [...]
August 10, 2007
Michael Vick's Depravity The Last Straw For Many Sports Fans
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but if a criminal breaks into my home, I'm not going to wait for a jury's verdict, I will immediately blow him away.
Michael Vick may be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, but the evidence is overwhelming he's a sadist who [...]
August 9, 2007
American Dog Owners Association Demands NFL Suspend Michael Vick
My two cats and two dogs are a constant source of comfort, entertainment and companionship.
When I come home from work my dogs welcome me with wagging tails, boisterous barks and sloppy licks. My cats on the other hand, rarely acknowledge my homecoming with anything other than a lazy lawn.
Cats can be friendly when the spirit [...]
August 8, 2007
The Michael Vick Dog Chew Toy
The images of superstar athletes appear on Jumbotron screens, cereal boxes and on millions of TV's in our jock-worshipping country.
But few athletes are worthy of this Rock Star treatment; for every Hank Aaron who achieves incredible deeds through determination, hard work and god-given natural talent there are a hundred like Jose Canseco who achieve stardom [...]
August 7, 2007
The SCLC Considered Honoring Michael Vick
"The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization. It played a prominent role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King, Jr."
Quote from Wikipedia.
Michael Vick would not have the most lucrative contract in the NFL if it weren't [...]
July 31, 2007
About boxing
Published as a letter to the editor in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Hmmm. So boxing ("The Most Absolute of Disciplines," J. Edwin Smith) is a sport which requires "abstaining from the sins of the flesh, whether it be cigarettes and booze or more fulfilling desires." So it is opposed to this "age of the morally [...]
July 19, 2007
Ban Michael Vick From The NFL
Atlanta quarterback, Michael Vick has the most lucrative contract in the NFL, millions of adoring fans, endorsements galore — and not a shred of human dignity.
Vick epitomizes the vanity, self-centeredness and criminal tendencies of too many American athletes. He has a history of coarse behavior and borderline criminal activity, but the latest allegations against him [...]
March 25, 2007
The Marv Albert Case: A Question Still Dangles
Scandals we have always with us. However, an aging scandal left a question that still troubles me. That is the Marv Albert case. Accused of forcibly biting a woman, he pled guilty to assault and battery and then made the talk show rounds.
In those interviews, he reiterated his previous assertion that hewas in fact [...]
January 17, 2007
The NFL Disses Britney Spears
From MSNBC News Services:
"The NFL has rejected Britney Spears' request to be in a Super Bowl commercial to tout the NFL Network, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday."She's too much of a train wreck. Besides, we already have Paris Hilton," the Daily News cited its source as saying.The commercial will feature L.L. Cool J [...]
